skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m excited to share my project, AI Song Maker, an AI-powered platform that enables anyone to create songs effortlessly. Whether you want to generate music from text or lyrics, remix tracks, or split vocals and instrumentals, our tool leverages cutting-edge AI to make the process seamless and intuitive.

Key Features:
- Text to Song: Turn your words into melodies.
- Lyrics Generator: Get AI-crafted lyrics in seconds.
- Vocal Remover: Easily isolate vocals or instrumentals.
- Music Remix: Reimagine tracks with AI-assisted remixes.
- Royalty-Free Music: Create and use tracks without worrying about licensing.

This platform is designed for creators, developers, and enthusiasts looking to explore AI’s potential in music. We’re committed to making music accessible, fun, and efficient for everyone.

I’d love to hear your feedback, suggestions, and thoughts! Feel free to try it out and let me know what you think.
I would guess they’re going to put as many expenses as possible on the nonprofit. For example, all the compute used for free tiers of ChatGPT will be charged to the nonprofit despite being a massive benefit to the for-profit. They may even charge the training costs, which will be in the billions, to the nonprofit as well
> Your start up will never experience this and the mega corp, like Facebook will only just barely experience anything like this because it’s just not that important

I guess someone who’s never worked there could say this. Facebook is a treasure trove of data for details on domestic and foreign politicians.
hopefully a different approach than with twitter
A few are: Look at a digital time twice, in a dream the numbers will usually change. Try to read fine print. Perfect vision with no glasses if you wear them.
If everyone sees it through, does anything else that direct evidence of actions prove otherwise? Explaining just wastes everyone's time.
Aside: We're scientists so all of our friends got us multiple copies of those Chris Ferrie "Quantum/aerospace/chemistry/etc for Babies" books.

Do not be like our friends.

His books are terrible for babies. They're more like books for dumb undergrads, if that makes sense. In that, he has a series of pages with only a purple circle on it and a short sentence (for example). Like, no baby out there just wants to look at a purple circle and have their parent tell them that this circle has different words on the page. They just see a purple circle. Works fine for the first or second read through. But after that, like, every kid is bored of it. The parents are bored of it. Like for real, just put more stuff on the page than the simple .ppt diagrams. At least a shadow of the thing. Put some monkeys or giraffes, some plant life, hide a ladybug. Anything but only a purple circle for three pages.

The Sandra Boynton books are great for kids though. Easy to riff off and make little songs and dance numbers. Get those for babies.
IRS Authorized to Seek Identities of Participants in the "Gig Economy"
Performance Improvements to Google's Binder Queued Ahead of Linux 6.14
If one can't figure out the causes of certain outcomes, how does one change the outcomes?
Indeed. Crypto is actually very fee-heavy in my experience, from exchange fees to transaction fees and so on. It's got quite a high-friction interface to the existing financial system. As a means of doing forex for the average person I doubt it'd be competitive with even old high-fee banks.
Because you can reverse the situation and criticize them for being offended by everything and difficult for you to work with.
But Ilya has convinced himself and many others that predicting the next token is intelligence.
But those drones would have to wear the same uniforms as the Keystone Cops to put it to full effect.
You do not have them solving such problems, but you do have them in the conversation as the human experts knowledgeable in that area work to solve the problem. This is not the LLM AIs doing independent work, this is them interactively working with the human person that is capable of solving that problem, it is their career, and the AI just makes them better at it, but not by doing their work, but by advising them as they work.
What is the fraud you're specifically referring to? Lucid dream induction?
The MoD of India is larger, fyi.
I'm sure they consented to taking the job but is it informed consent? Can you really know what you will be exposed to?
And unless unemployment insurance is given to quitters, autonomy to leave a job at any point is overestimated... Sure you can decide if you want to leave but how long it takes may not be in everyone's control if they first need to find another job.
Becaus then you need tests for the tests
Hmm, if OpenAI and Sam Altman claim to be a savior of humanity by bringing AGI, but they need enormous amounts of capital, this would be a perfect use case for the world’s largest, most powerful government which flaunts his values of freedom, democracy, and other American values to inject its vast resources. We control the global economy and monetary polices.

The government is supposed to be the entity which invests in the “uninvestable”. Think, running a police department is not a profitable venture (in western societies). There’s no concept of profitability in the public sector, for good reason. And we all benefit greatly from it.

AGI sounds like a public good. This would be putting money where your mouth is, truly.

Unfortunately, many private actors want to control this technology for their own selfish ambitions. Or, the government is too dysfunctional to do its job. Or… people don’t believe in the government doing these kinds of things anymore, which is a shame. And we are must worse off
Because people are overwhelmingly selfish A-holes who are excellent at incorrectly justifying anything that benefits themselves as good for everyone. It gets worse when you pair it with sociopathic corporations as they will always push for more.This kind of bad behaviour is kept in check by competition so only becomes a problem when government can be influenced to grant rights or when competition reaches its natural conclusion of monopoly. Both situations need strong institutions looking out for the majority of people, which we obviously don't have in the government in either case because antitrust breakups rarely happen anymore and copyright is crouched in maximizing benefits to rights holders rather than minimizing market distortion while increasing creative output to some desired level.
Enthusiasm is worth 10 IQ points

-Kevin Kelly
one third nor $137M seems like small thing, this dig is a bit weird.
Hi. Now you do.

I dropped out of cs half because I didn’t enjoy the coding because they dropped us into c++ and I found the error messages so confusing.

I discovered python five years later and discovered I loved coding.

( the other half of the reason is we spent two weeks designing an atm machine at a very abstract level and I thought the whole profession would be that boring.)
> Most companies have some degree of 'politics' which is essentially people working in their own interests over the company's. This is somewhat unrelated to skills and value.

as someone else put it: there are sides in office politics, and by choosing not to play you are picking a side by default, which is often the losing side.

"you can't be neutral on a moving train"
That’s what I understood from a documentary, I think it was from Al Jeezira, a civilian was pointing that there was a double radar echo from the plane and it meant there were probably two planes on top of each other.

Sure the article mention a theory that Gaddafi was in a fighter jet, and the civilian plane was a collateral damage from a dogfight, but given the lack of information in the public space, both theories still have a lot of common points.
Hallucinations can be mostly eliminated with RAG and tools. I use NotebookLM all of the time to research through our internal artifacts, it includes citations/references from your documents.

Even with ChatGPT you can ask it to find web citations and if it uses the Python runtime to find answers, you can look at the code.

And to prevent the typical responses - my company uses GSuite so Google already has our IP, NotebookLM is specifically approved by my company and no Google doesn’t train on your documents
> this would be a perfect use case for the world’s largest, most powerful government which flaunts his values of freedom, democracy, and other American values to inject its vast resources

https://www.energy.gov/fasst

Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence for Science, Security and Technology (FASST)

DOE is seeking public input to inform how DOE can leverage its existing assets at its 17 national labs and partner with external organizations to support building a national AI capability.
The US has had a self-service border crossing app for years. It is aimed at pleasure boaters and requires an in-person interview once a year to use.
I try to just adopt the perspective that people like me, often more than they might even think they do.

It's not easy to do but when I do it, it makes it a lot easier for me to want to interact with them.

And if you want, ive built tools and tricks to help me with this that I could share.
Singapore is even further ahead, with no human in the (regular) loop at all. I walked up to the first barrier, it scanned my face and opened. My name appeared on the screen inside, before I inserted my passport. Then the system "thought" about it for a few seconds, and then the second barrier opened.

I appreciated the complete lack of a passport line (going and coming), but got squicked out about the heuristics the system (might) run through before it let me through.

That's where all of this is headed, though.
As you get close to the threshold when meditating yourself to sleep, your thoughts turn to goop. I've found it much easier to just count my breaths, simply starting over if I lose track. The hardest part is to not forget what you were doing as your mind drifts.
I would just ask myself “Am I dreaming?”

When I’m awake, I immediately answer “no,” but when I’m asleep, I’m not sure. That’s enough to know that I’m not awake.
> A group of individuals adept with use of such an idiot savant enhanced environment would be incredibly capable. They'd be a force unseen in human civilization before today.

I'm sorry but your comment is a good example of the logical shell game many people play with AI when applying it to general problem solving. Your LLM AI is both an idiot and an expert somehow? Where is this expertise derived from and why should you trust it? If LLMs were truly as revolutionary as all the grifters would have you believe then why do we not see "forces unseed in human civilization before today" by humans that employ armies of interns? That these supposed ubermensch do not presently exist is firm evidence in support of current AI being a dead end in my opinion.

Humans are infinitely more capable than current AI, the limiting factor is time and money. Not capability!
Are you still a coder when you use AI 100 times a day?

AI is a type of outsourcing, you became a customer.
https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/funsearch-making-new-d... seems to be a way. The LLM is the creative side, coming up with ideas-and in which a case the “mutation’ caused by hallucinations may be useful. Combined with an evaluation evaluator to protect against the bad outputs.

Pretty close to the idea of human brainstorming and has worked. Could it do orbital math? Maybe not today but the approach seems as feasible as the work Mattingly did for Apollo 13.
It sounds like you're looking for a project/task management tool rather than a knowledge base?

Most complex tools have task types, some are customizable, some not - e.g. Jira would do what you describe?
you don't have to play the game all of the time, just be social with the right people in the right places.
I assumed it would be much larger, but it's a fraction of a percent larger:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_employers

That's actually kind of shocking to me given the difference in population between the countries.
A flock of migratory birds could very easily be cruising at that height, and if in a fast moving jetstream or similar could be moving at hundreds of miles an hour when referenced to a ground based source.
The heat signature from multiple big turbofan engines and the radar signatures for the same could look similar to a bomber or cargo military plane, so here again a human needs to discriminate somehow.
Call them, offer them double, and I’m sure they will accommodate you.
Yeah, definitely seems like a strange incident, but as far as I can tell there isn't any widely accepted theory for what exactly happened.
You can still watch it on Paramount+
Setting up a trust is more common than a foundation. But the concept is similar - you create a legal entity that will use your estate's resources to carry on whatever work you direct it to. You will appoint a trustee to take over the work when you die, and it will all be put together by an attorney into legal documentation that is filed with your local governments.

It will cost you a few thousand dollars for the legal work, and significantly more if you want it to last forever, as you need to fund it with enough money that it will not run out.

But I'm not sure keeping a web site alive forever is actually a common use case. That would be an interesting question to ask your attorney when you hire one.
I’ve thought about this, a lot. My price is way higher than it once was, but still, if someone came along and dropped $10bn on my desk, I’d hear them out. There’s things I’d say no to, regardless of price, but otherwise things are probably negotiable.
Less than 1/3rd of 130 million was stated in the release, so < 40 million, not hundreds of millions
isn't syncthing on android dead?

https://forum.syncthing.net/t/discontinuing-syncthing-androi...
I want to put my opinion somewhere and as a reply to this seems like a good option.

I am anti-capitalism and anti-profit and anti-Microsoft, but I can take a step back and recognize the truth to what’s being said here. They give the context that hundreds of billions are being spent on AI right now, and if OpenAI wants to remain competitive, they need significantly more money than they originally anticipated. They’re recognizing they can’t get this money unless there is a promise of returns for those who give it. There any not many people equipped to fork over $50 billion with zero return and I assume of the very few people who can, none expressed interest in doing so.

They need money to stay competitive. They felt confident they’d be surpassed without it. This was their only avenue for getting that money. And while it would have been more true to the original mission to simply let other people surpass them, if that’s what happens, my guess is that Sam is doing some mental gymnastics as to how now letting that happen and at least letting some part of OpenAI’s success be nonprofit is better than the competition who would have 0% be charitable
> Unfortunately Anki doesn't have a proper API and isn't easy to reverse engineer

Tried any of the below?

AnkiConnect (HTTP API): https://git.foosoft.net/alex/anki-connect

Rust: https://github.com/ankitects/anki/tree/main/rslib via Protobuf: https://github.com/ankitects/anki/tree/main/proto/anki

Rough DB Schema (outdated, but sufficient): https://github.com/ankidroid/Anki-Android/wiki/Database-Stru...
You could simply look this up on the internet, but for those of us who are exceptionally lazy, here goes:

Every now and then, say every hour, or whenever you think of it, look around you. Try to check if what you see is real. Are things floating around and is gravity not working as expected? When you look over your shoulder and back, did the room change color, and did the table just turn into a tree? Try to touch something with your hand. Do you not feel any resistance when your hand drops through the couch? If so, you are probably dreaming.
"People do not just sit there thinking and then spitting out their best guess."

Well, if you are using AI like this, you are doing it wrong.
Yes AI is imperfect, fallible, it sometimes hallucinates, but it is a freaking time saver (10x?). It is a tool. Don't expect a hammer to build you a cabinet.
But that would also harm companies that actually intend to switch to a v3 based replacement but need a bit of time to complete the development.
> Anyone who says AI is useless

Most of those people are a bit bad at making their case. What they mean but don't convey well is that AI is useless for it's proclaimed uses.

You are correct that LLMs are pretty good at guessing this kind of well-documented & easily verifiable but hard to find information. That is a valid use. (Though, woe betide the fool who uses LLMs for irreversible destructive actions.)

The thing is though, this isn't enough. There just aren't that many questions out there that match those criteria. Generative AI is too expensive to serve that small a task. Charging a buck a question won't earn the $100 billion OpenAI needs to balance the books.

Your use case gets dismissed because on it's own, it doesn't sustain AI.
> Your LLM AI is both an idiot and an expert somehow?

Maybe you are unfamiliar with the term idiot savant?
I’m a US citizen and get stamped on the way in and out of Schengen area every time. I think they do the same for UK post-Brexit.
Even better than that was an Z280 which did have a proper user/supervisor mode and simple MMU. Really reminiscent of a PDP-11 in terms of supervisor state, just strapped to a z80 instruction set otherwise. Also added a nice SP relative load to the instruction set.
AFAIK galantamine is the only drug with actual studies[0] for inducing lucidity. Participants would practice dream recall and reality checks each day, and fall asleep after reciting lucid dream affirmations. Then be awoken in the middle of the night to take galantamine, and fall back asleep while visualizing a continuation of the dream they were in last.

Anecdotally, I become lucid whenever I take it without doing the rest of the study's rituals, but I've worked on improving my dream recall for years now.

[0] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30089135/
Actually no, Boeing planes haven't survived nearly as well against missiles.
Evil marketing 101 phone-home telemetry would be going in the other direction.

So I guess in effect you're sort of getting the ISS's phone-home telemetry?
I am going to borrow that "should is a lazy word" slogan. Thanks!
That sounds mostly like an incentives problem. If OpenAI, Anthropic, etc decide their LLMs need to be accurate they will find some way of better catching hallucinations. It probably will end up (already is?) being yet another LLM acting as a control structure trying to fact check responses before they are sent to users though, so who knows if it will work well.

Right noe there's no incentive though. People keep paying good money to use these tools despite their hallucinations, aka lies/gas lighting/fake information. As long as users don't stop paying and LLM companies don't have business pressure to lean on accuracy as a market differentiator, no one is going to bother fixing it.
Yes, likely most here would do the same even if they're not willing to admit it.

I do think part of the price (paid) should be getting bluntly called out for it.
The article is paywalled, but my opinions are not. Whether listening to a book counts as "reading" is up to one's definition of the word "read." Listening to a book to obtain its information definitely works in a way very similar to reading the words on the page, so if one believes "reading" to mean "learning" then the two forms of gathering information from a book are synonymous. However, if one looks toward using the word "read" to mean "tracking over letters and words to process information" then there is no way that listening correlates. Personally, I think we should drop the shame toward "listening" to a book instead of redefining the word "reading" to ease the potential embarrassment of the listeners.
You are omitting that each of those events happened after the neighboring Arab states declared war on Israel. Israel won those wars. If they didn't, Israel would not exist.

Israel should get out of the West Bank, just like the way Israel exited Gaza. And I would like to see Palestinians flourish in both those areas. I'd even be happy to see Israel go back to pre-67 boundaries. But this will only happen when both sides desire to have peace and acknowledge their rights to exist. Sadly neither do.
Adding custom notification text and ability to send notifications some time BEFORE the target date would be cool additions imho

pretty nice otherwise
That 2006 incident isn't a good example it's almost entirely due to the fact that a non-essential part of the Embraer neatly sliced a big chunk of the airliner's wing off.
This confuses me. You have your model, you have your tokens.

If the tokens are bit-for-bit-identical, where does the non-determinism come in?

If the tokens are only roughly-the-same-thing-to-a-human, sure I guess, but convergence on roughly the same output for roughly the same input should be inherently a goal of LLM development.
100% agree. When we explicitly segment and compose AI components, we are removing the ability for them to learn their own pathways between the components. We've been proven time and time again the bitter lesson[1]: that throwing a ton of data and compute at a model yields better results than what we could come up with.

That said, we can still isolate and modify parts of a network, and combine models trained for different tasks. But you need to break things down into components after the fact, instead of beforehand, in order to get the benefits of learning via scale of data + compute.

[1]: http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html